Genre: Fiction
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The doctor’s wife
This is a novelization of the life and struggles of the first doctor in the world to perform successfuly surgery for breast cancer. The professional battle to overcome the scourge of breast cancer is mirrored by the surgeon’s tempestuous duels with his domineering female family members.
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Loop
In the novel Ring, the videotape was the vendetta of Sadako, a tragic girl who could not be sated with simple revenge. In the sequel Spiral, a mutating virus displaced the tape and came to threaten the entire diversity of life. In this much-awaited conclusion of the Ring trilogy, everything you thought you knew about…
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Miyazawa Kenji : selections
The poet Miyazawa Kenji was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who is known for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. This book collects his poetry and provides an introduction to his life and work. It includes poems translated by Gary Snyder. It features a Foreword by the poet Geoffrey O’Brien.
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3 strange tales
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The fiend with twenty faces
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The thief
The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no…
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Points and Lines
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A wild sheep chase
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Two novels : Seventeen, J
Two views of a world whose traditional values have been blown away: Seventeen, the story of a lonely boy who turns to a right-wing group for self-esteem, and J, the story of a spoiled young drifter son of a Japanese executive.
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Grotesque
In the wake of the brutal murders of two Tokyo prostitutes, Yuriko and Kazue, Yuriko’s older sister describes the three women’s education at a prestigious girls’ high school, where a strict societal conventions determine the courses of their lives.